filedb.structfile module

Classes

class whoosh.filedb.structfile.StructFile(fileobj, name=None, onclose=None)

Returns a “structured file” object that wraps the given file object and provides numerous additional methods for writing structured data, such as “write_varint” and “write_long”.

close()

Closes the wrapped file.

flush()

Flushes the buffer of the wrapped file. This is a no-op if the wrapped file does not have a flush method.

read_pickle()

Reads a pickled object from the wrapped file.

read_string()

Reads a string from the wrapped file.

read_svarint()

Reads a variable-length encoded signed integer from the wrapped file.

read_tagint()

Reads a sometimes-compressed unsigned integer from the wrapped file. This is similar to the varint methods but uses a less compressed but faster format.

read_varint()

Reads a variable-length encoded unsigned integer from the wrapped file.

write_byte(n)

Writes a single byte to the wrapped file, shortcut for file.write(chr(n)).

write_pickle(obj, protocol=-1)

Writes a pickled representation of obj to the wrapped file.

write_string(s)

Writes a string to the wrapped file. This method writes the length of the string first, so you can read the string back without having to know how long it was.

write_svarint(i)

Writes a variable-length signed integer to the wrapped file.

write_tagint(i)

Writes a sometimes-compressed unsigned integer to the wrapped file. This is similar to the varint methods but uses a less compressed but faster format.

write_varint(i)

Writes a variable-length unsigned integer to the wrapped file.

class whoosh.filedb.structfile.BufferFile(buf, name=None, onclose=None)

class whoosh.filedb.structfile.ChecksumFile(*args, **kwargs)